Carven Vetiver
Grapefruit and bergamot open bright and pithy-bitter, with a faint marine shimmer giving the citrus a chilled-glass quality rather than a sun-warmed one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Herbal50
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- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Orange
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open bright and pithy-bitter, with a faint marine shimmer giving the citrus a chilled-glass quality rather than a sun-warmed one.
Lavender enters quickly at the heart, paired with orange — clean and aromatic in the modern barbershop tradition rather than herbal-medicinal, the orange contributing a sweet rounded contrast. There's an aldehydic lift giving the middle a slight retro polish without feeling dated.
The base settles into vetiver, sandalwood, benzoin, and cedar — vetiver doing the most work here, its earthy-rooty quality adding seriousness, sandalwood and cedar holding a dry woody spine. Overall the character is a clean masculine lavender-vetiver, daytime, warm-weather-friendly, suited to office and casual settings where polished freshness matters.
Scent twins
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